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Drachtstercompagnie (The Netherlands)

Fryslân province

by Jarig Bakker, 21 Sep 2003
Design: J.C. Terluin.

Drachtstercompagnie village
Drachtstercompagnie CoA

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Drachtstercompagnie village

Drachtstercompagnie (Frisian: De Kompenije) is a village in Smallingerland municipality, Fryslân province. Population: (1958) 1240; 1974) 971. It is a long village, founded after 1743 along canals connected to the Drachtster Compagnonsvaart (a big canal). A "Compagnie" was in the 16th and 117th century a company, entitled to the exploitation of marshy soils. Several hamlets and villages still have that name, like Oudehornster C., Hoornsterzwaagster C., Jubbegaaster C., and the Drachtstercompagnie. In southeast Fryslân the digging of the Drachtster Compagnonsvaart in 1641 was crucial in the peat-exploitation.
CoA: per bend sinister of blue and silver; b. again per bend sinister of silver and blue; the silver charged with three lying red blocks placed 1:1:1; a canton wavy per bend sinister per fess of red and gold, in the form of two addossed cloverleaves countercharged, issuing from the from the diagonal.
Flag: blue with a white diagonal with a width of 1/2 flagheight, starting in the hoist bottom and reaching into 2/3 of flaglength; the diagonal charged with three lying blocks; each block of 1/6 flagheight and 1/4 flaglength, the top- and bottom-block at 1/12 of flagtop and -bottom and at a distance of 1/6 flagheigh